(dcxii) 20 great CPAN modules released last week

Updates for great CPAN modules released last week. A module is considered great if its favorites count is greater or equal than 12.

1. App::DBBrowser - Browse SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL databases and their tables interactively.
   • Version: 2.444 on 2026-08-04, with 18 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 2.443 was released 1 month, 10 days before
   • Author: KUERBIS
2. App::perlimports - Make implicit imports explicit
   • Version: 0.000061 on 2026-08-06, with 25 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.000060 was released 3 months before
   • Author: OALDERS
3. Config::IniFiles - A module for reading .ini-style configuration files.
   • Version: 3.003000 on 2026-08-06, with 15 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 3.002000 was released 1 month, 21 days before
   • Author: SHLOMIF
4. Convert::Pheno - Convert clinical and phenotypic data between supported models
   • Version: 0.34 on 2026-08-03, with 17 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.33 was released 3 days before
   • Author: MRUEDA
5. CPANSA::DB - the CPAN Security Advisory data as a Perl data structure, mostly for CPAN::Audit
   • Version: 20260807.001 on 2026-08-07, with 29 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 20260803.002 was released 4 days before
   • Author: BRIANDFOY
6. Cucumber::TagExpressions - A library for parsing and evaluating cucumber tag expressions (filters)
   • Version: 11.0.1 on 2026-08-05, with 19 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 11.0.0 was released 13 days before
   • Author: CUKEBOT
7. Imager - Perl extension for Generating 24 bit Images
   • Version: 1.034 on 2026-08-07, with 68 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 1.033 was released 1 month before
   • Author: TONYC
8. Markdent - An event-based Markdown parser toolkit
   • Version: 0.41 on 2026-08-04, with 21 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 0.40 was released 5 years, 4 months, 14 days before
   • Author: DROLSKY
9. Marpa::R2 - Release 2 of Marpa
   • Version: 14.000000 on 2026-08-03, with 49 votes
   • Previous CPAN version: 13.003_000 was released 4 days before
   • Author: JKEGL
10. Math::Prime::Util - Utilities related to prime numbers, including fast sieves and factoring
    • Version: 0.75 on 2026-08-08, with 22 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.75 was released the same day
    • Author: DANAJ
11. Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl
    • Version: 5.20260803 on 2026-08-03, with 46 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.20260720 was released 12 days before
    • Author: BINGOS
12. OpenAPI::Modern - Validate HTTP requests and responses against an OpenAPI v3.0, v3.1 or v3.2 document
    • Version: 0.146 on 2026-08-07, with 14 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.145 was released 3 days before
    • Author: ETHER
13. less - The Perl 5 language interpreter
    • Version: 5.042003 on 2026-08-02, with 2310 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.040005 was released the same day
    • Author: SHAY
14. Perl::Tidy - indent and reformat perl scripts
    • Version: 20260808 on 2026-08-07, with 149 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 20260705 was released 1 month, 3 days before
    • Author: SHANCOCK
15. Sereal - Fast, compact, powerful binary (de-)serialization
    • Version: 5.010 on 2026-08-05, with 65 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.009 was released 19 days before
    • Author: YVES
16. Sereal::Decoder - Fast, compact, powerful binary deserialization
    • Version: 5.010 on 2026-08-05, with 26 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.009 was released 19 days before
    • Author: YVES
17. Sereal::Encoder - Fast, compact, powerful binary serialization
    • Version: 5.010 on 2026-08-05, with 25 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 5.009 was released 19 days before
    • Author: YVES
18. Sidef - The Sidef Programming Language - A modern, high-level programming language
    • Version: 26.08 on 2026-08-07, with 126 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 26.07 was released 1 month, 4 days before
    • Author: TRIZEN
19. Sys::Virt - libvirt Perl API
    • Version: v12.6.0 on 2026-08-06, with 17 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: v12.5.0 was released 1 month, 3 days before
    • Author: DANBERR
20. XML::Hash::XS - Simple and fast hash to XML and XML to hash conversion written in C
    • Version: 0.66 on 2026-08-08, with 13 votes
    • Previous CPAN version: 0.65 was released 2 days before
    • Author: YOREEK